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Both died of oesophagal cancer.

For a variety of, off topic, reasons I did not catch up with my mother until a couple months
before her death.

One day while visiting her at home i noticed a large number cans on the kitchen table.
These cans were a proprietary liquid product, provided by the hospital caring for her. Being me I carefully read the back label. It was loaded with sugars (no doubt to provide tired cancer victims with “energy” to hasten their death).

I queried one of the doctors involved about the wisdom of feeding cancer patients high sugar food. I was airily dismissed “cancer cells feed on everything”.

Clearly (at that time) a piece of a 70 year old Nobel Peace Prize research had not penetrated the minds of our local medics.

Some seven years later a friend of had the same fate. He died two months ago.

It is not only the victims who are addicted to carbohydrates it is the medical profession
as well.

Sad, but very true.

My brother has colon cancer. He’s had the surgery and the chemo, and so far the cancer is winning. I suggested he research the ketogenic diet: MedLine says it not only doesn’t work for the kind of cancer he has, but is dangerous, especially for someone with diabetes or heart disease. (He has Type 2 diabetes, as I do, and hypertension, and there is a family history of people dying of heart attacks.)

I can’t see where arguing with him is going to help – he has too many “authorities” on his side.

As far as I’m aware, in a state of ketosis, ketones are used as a substitute for glucose molecules for the body’s normal cells. Cancerous cells obviously differentiate between the ketones and glucose but how?

Have these cancer trials been run as truly low carb whereby the body enters ketosis or have they been simply a lowering of carbs so lipid metabolism becomes the dominant energy source?

Forgive me if I’ve assumed anything that’s incorrect, I’m at the very forefront of my knowledge here Please do get as scientific as you dare in your reply!

The cancerous cells differentiate between glucose and ketones because glucose and ketones are two different substances. Many tissues can use both as fuel, but some can’t. The red blood cells, for example, can use only glucose. Certain cells in the eye and in the kidney work the same. As I understand it – and I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t made a study of the subject – it’s the same for cancer cells. They use only glucose.

I’ve read that women who eat a fattier diet are more prone to breast cancer and was wondering if it was not the dietary fat but the high carbohydrate eating that is more common? Could it be that they have studied the fat intake but not the rest of what a person is eating… i.e. refined carbohydrates combined with fat?

There are many studies from Italy showing a correlation between starch intake and breast cancer, but these studies, like all the studies showing fat intake correlating with breast cancer are observational studies, and, as such, can’t be used to determine causality.

I may not have helped at her stage, but, again, what would it have hurt? It may have done the trick.

I queried this with the staff and was assured that cancer cells fed on everything.

A fat lot of of notice was taken of me who quoted the Warburg effect.

Medics always know best…..

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